The Palace Theatre is a Grade II listed building[1][2] in Swansea, Wales, located at the northern end of High Street and recognisable for its distinctive wedge shape.

[4] The building is one of just two purpose-built music halls left standing in the whole of the UK,[5] and was the first place in Wales to show a silent picture.

[9] In April 2014 Swansea Council made £75,000 available to the owners to carry out work on the High Street theatre,[10] which had been named as one of the 10 most endangered Victorian and Edwardian buildings in England and Wales.

The summit was prompted by a spate of incidents in the city including an assault on 20 July on High Street which saw the death of a 54-year-old man.

[14] According to the Theatres Trust it remained "in a poor state of repair and extremely vulnerable", although developments "provided hope that a viable solution, which includes community use and preserves the main body of the auditorium, could be found".

[3] In September 2019 the Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service were called out to the theatre amid reports of smoke coming from the ground and fourth-floor windows of the building.